This blog space is intended to serve as a place for the group compiling the Restoration Edition scriptures to communicate with the greater body. It replaces the Updates as found on scriptures.info, and will also serve other related purposes as needed. All the work related to the Guide and Standard can be found on guideandstandard.blogspot.com.

Monday, September 10, 2018

Important progress update

At the Gilbert, AZ conference in March, the
scriptures committee stated that we thought the work on the scriptures was
completed and that the next 6+ months would be used by everyone to read the
scriptures with the intent of finding any typos or issues that needed to be
addressed before preparing them for printing in a leather-bound, onionskin
version. Many have emailed us issues that they’ve found and we thank everyone
for the help. Several on the now disbanded committee have also proofed the Book
of Mormon meticulously. We discovered a number of issues that we either had
missed or hadn’t identified before. We also realized that by using many
volunteers for the work, we created the problem of many styles and perspectives
on grammar and punctuation. However, every issue has been addressed to the best
of our ability. The finalized version of the Book of Mormon will shortly be
uploaded to Amazon and will hopefully be included in Volume 2 by the end of the
week. It is likewise being sent to www.scriptures.info and will be updated on
that site prior to the conference in Layton at the end of September.

A similar review of the T&C and New
Testament is underway. There is less involved with those works, so we hope
those efforts will move more quickly. This will be followed by a review of the
Old Covenants.

Many people have asked how soon we will be
printing the leather-bound, onionskin scriptures. As soon as the New Testament
is completed and Volume 2 is formatted for that set of scriptures, publishers
who have been identified will be sent a proof of Volume 2 for bids to print
sets of all 3 volumes. Because volumes 1 & 3 are larger/smaller than volume
2, a bid for 3 pieces that are the size of Volume 2 will get us a good ballpark
cost. As soon as we have a couple of competitive bids we will announce it. That
will also likely give us a timeframe for availability.Once the leather-bound scriptures are well underway, we will make sure that all electronic versions are made available/u[dated, and that a very large print set is considered through Amazon.